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Clever, controversial or just plain stupid, we highlight the best internet chatter of the working day.
View ArticleWhile She Sleeps Merch Packs
Our mates at Sony have hooked us up with three album and T-shirt packs for some While She Sleeps devotees!
View ArticleNorthmen: A Viking Saga DVDs
First it was ninjas, then it was zombies, now there’s a new hotness in town: Vikings. To celebrate the release of Northmen: A Viking Saga, eOne Entertainment have given us 10 copies to give away!
View ArticleBert McCracken: The Revolution Will Be Televised
Bert McCracken from The Used? He hosts a talk show now. Check out how he’s settling into life as the face of Channel [V]'s The Revolution.
View ArticleIn Hearts Wake – Skydancer
Recording two full-length albums in one fell swoop and keeping the second one completely secret, all so that it can be dropped at peak hype a year later, is no easy feat.
View ArticleBLUNT Review: PVRIS –‘Use Me’
When the third studio album from PVRIS comes out tomorrow, it should, on all counts, be a triumphant moment. The album process has seen frontwoman Lynn Gunn confront her demons and, despite being...
View Article‘The Boys’ Season 2 sticks the boot into its superheroes with relish
Based on the controversial comic series by writer Garth Ennis (Preacher) and artist Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan), The Boys is proving to be exactly the kind of iconoclastic, irreverent,...
View ArticleFilm Review: I See You
Helen Hunt’s in this thing. That might be the uncanniest element in play in this tight, clever little thriller. Oscar winner Helen Hunt (for As Good as it Gets back in 1997), whose biggest cultural...
View ArticleGlenn Danzig’s ‘Verotika’ is either a complete train wreck or an instant...
I’ll say one thing about Verotika, shock rocker Glenn Danzig’s batshit insane anthology horror flick: it proves how crude and ultimately useless star rating systems are. I shudder (and this thing is...
View ArticleFilm Review: Nocturne
Sydney Sweeney’s time in the spotlight is lasting more than fifteen minutes. With a widely regarded feature in HBO’s controversial but masterful Euphoria, it appears her best is still yet to come,...
View ArticlePolitical punks battle for Britain’s soul in ‘White Riot’
London, 1976: The Queen’s Silver Jubilee is nigh, but the country is in the grips of a massive economic depression. The social fallout bifurcates: on the one hand, the alienated urban angst of the...
View Article25 years on, cyberpunk classic ‘Strange Days’ looks like a documentary
Although it died a death on initial release back in ‘95, Kathryn Bigelow’s propulsive sci-fi thriller Strange Days is a stone cold, ass-kicking classic. You ever see that movie where the murder of an...
View ArticleMel Gibson is Santa Claus in gritty action thriller, ‘Fatman’, and words fail us
Look, some concepts are just so wild that you have to take a look just to convince yourself that it’s real. Omit a few key details and Fatman, the latest feature from filmmaking siblings Eshom and Ian...
View ArticleBLUNT review: Industry
Forget the tacky Lena Dunham credit and the overzealous substance abuse, Industry should be required watching for induction days at every corporation. There was once an episode of Skins where Effy, in...
View ArticleNew documentary ‘Zappa’ paints a compelling portrait of the Mother of Invention
“Legendary” is an adjective that gets thrown around a lot, often without too much justification. So too is “visionary”, come to think of it. But Frank Zappa was both: insanely talented, intimidatingly...
View Article‘Black Widow’ is Marvel’s answer to Jason Bourne
Natasha Romanoff may be dead in the MCU, but her solo big screen outing is worth a cinematic séance. Our film critic Travis Johnson checks in. After Captain America: Civil War, but before The...
View ArticleBLUNT review: Nothing But Thieves – ‘Moral Panic II’
Spending time ruminating on how fucked up the world is right now is a miserable endeavour, but a necessary one – after all, the first step to recovery is admitting that there’s a problem. That said...
View ArticleReview: Andrew W.K. – God Is Partying
Who is the titular God featured on Andrew W.K.’s fifth album, God Is Partying? Well, it’s no one other than the Godfather of heavy metal himself, Ronnie James Dio. No, W.K. doesn’t sound like Dio, but...
View ArticleReview: Alien Weaponry – Tangaroa
What happens when you combine indigenous Māori traditions, language and cultural tales with ferocious groove metal? You get the one and only Alien Weaponry, of course! Hailed by Metal Hammer as the...
View ArticleReview: The Used – Heartwork (Deluxe)
Wild, heart-wrenching, whimsical, aggressive… There are many words that one could use to describe Heartwork, the eighth studio album – and, dare we say it, magnum opus – from rock stalwarts The Used....
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